• @[email protected]
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    172 years ago

    Dude i forgot about these!!! I used to call it sun juice when i was little. It was basically liquified sugar tho.

  • @[email protected]
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    32 years ago

    I miss Jones Juice Dave - green tea with hemp, ginseng, and royal jelly. I can still taste it, feel the jar with the metal cap.

  • @[email protected]
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    122 years ago

    Did they finally kill sobe? I used to chug that stuff as a kid, tried one a few years ago, not sure if it was always that sweet, or it went the way of most good indie (that was bought up by conglomerates) beverage distributors.

    • @[email protected]
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      142 years ago

      It was always that sweet. Everything we drank as kids was SUPER sweet, mostly still is. Once you break the sugar addiction and try those things again later the sweetness is shocking.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        Sobe first came on my radar around 2000, imma look it up for it, because I feel you aren’t that old… Idk maybe you are old, founded in 96, bought by Pepsi in 2000.

      • DagonPie
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        152 years ago

        Dont worry im 30 and got called old for posting this in a discord im in.

        • Lemdee
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          52 years ago

          As a 31 year old, it’s true. 30 is the mark when people are allowed to start calling you old. Welcome, tapioca is on the shelf.

          • Ataraxia
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            32 years ago

            I’m almost 40 and I’m sure sobe was around when I was in school

    • The Picard ManeuverOPM
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      302 years ago

      That’s the only way I remember it. I guess I had stopped drinking it before they switched to plastic. It’s probably my fault they stopped making it. Sorry.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 years ago

      I’ve got a wicked scar on my right hand that can attest to that! I was riding my bike home from my supermarket job as a teenager without a light… While holding my Sobe drink in my hand… I didn’t see a retaining wall log that had fallen down onto the sidewalk so I hit it, tire-first. I flew over the handlebars and my hand landed on the bottle as it broke. Severed a nerve in the hand and damn-near hit an artery. Surgery to repair that, and I still have some numbness in it. Live and learn, but I’ll always think of that when someone mentions Sobe!

    • @[email protected]
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      52 years ago

      I remember the firefighters that lived on my street would poke a hole in the top of an empty Sobe bottle cap and fill it halfway with gasoline before nestling the glass bottle inside their fire pit. They did this pretty much every weekend. The fireball was always impressive.

  • s7ryph
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    252 years ago

    I remember it getting bought out. The older teas had about 5 ingredients on the label. Overnight they doubled or tripled. Of course we needed all those chemicals because they were cheaper than just making a good tea.

  • @[email protected]
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    162 years ago

    That glass Lizz Blizz was divine…and I later learned it was like 350 calories, mostly from sugar, in a single bottle.

    Holy crap lol.

  • FunkyMonk
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    232 years ago

    I heard Pepsi bought it and that is when they started using scop instead of sugar. Plastic instead of glass. Fuck Megacorps.